Kathryn – I agree with you that Must Love Dogs was bad, even grading on the chick flick curve. Worse still was The Truth About Cats and Dogs. This raises a pet peeve of mine which is undoubtedly no pet of yours. If you are going to have a movie with “dogs” in the title, you need to have a sufficient number of dogs in the movie. Must Love Dogs didn’t have nearly enough canines in it. Nor were they particularly relevant to the plot. It could just as well have been Must Love Vintage Cars or Must Love Star Wars Action Figures. Now, this can’t be an absolute rule, because I didn’t want to see any dogs in, say, Dogs of War or Dog Day Afternoon. A Boy and His Dog isn’t a great example either. But if you’re going to make a sappy movie that chicks will oo and ahh over, the least you could do is satisfy the dog-loving men who are forced to watch.